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Producers Urged to Focus on Advantages of Group Housing
2013-05-10 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - A researcher with the Prairie Swine Centre is encouraging pork producers to focus on the advantages offered by group housing as they consider moving away the use of gestation stalls, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Free Training Sessions Offered to Iowa Pork Producers
2013-05-07 13:00:00| National Hog Farmer
The Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) is partnering with the Iowa Pork Industry Center and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach to offer free Pork Quality Assurance Plus (PQA Plus) and Transport Quality Assurance (TQA) programs for Iowa pork producers. read more
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Do Producers Truly have Choices When it Comes to Animal Care?
2013-05-03 23:08:00| National Hog Farmer
This week the Retail Council of Canada (RCC) reported that many of the largest supermarket companies across the border have decided to stop procuring pork produced in systems that use gestation stalls. The new procurement specifications will be phased in over the next nine years by retailers including Costco Canada, Wal-Mart Canada, Loblaw, Metro, Sobeys, Co-op Atlantic and Federated Co-operatives. The Canadian Pork Council (CPC) responded by saying producers will continue to focus on their first priority, which is the welfare of their animals, while working on a new set of animal care standards. National Hog Farmer Blog read more
EPA Continues To Release Personal Information On Cattle Producers
2013-05-02 22:50:00| Beef
National Cattlemen's Beef Association The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to illegally release information on cattle operations to the activist groups Earth Justice, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In this latest action, the agency again admitted it had released too much information on livestock producers, specifically producers from Montana and Nebraska. read more
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Mettler-Toledo unveils inspection technology for packaged food producers
2013-05-02 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
Global precision instruments and services provider Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision has introduced new inspection series for the producers of large and small packaged fresh food products.
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